Why: To meet with Bill Hendricksen and get the inside scoop on cold storage in the Inland Empire and the whole country. Mr. Hendricksen is currently CEO of Lineage Logistics and oversees all facets of the company’s operations nationwide.

Mr. Hendricksen is a 1974 graduate from University of Wisconsin-Stout with a B.S. degree in hotel and restaurant management and started in the cold storage industry in 1979 when he founded Inland Cold Storage in Riverside, California. In 2008 the company merged with the Madison Warehouse Group, a subsidiary of Castle & Cooke, and in July of 2012 merged with Lineage Logistics.

Lineage is the third largest temperature-controlled warehousing and logistics company in North America.

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